Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-05-14
NOISES OF THE CITY.

A fortune awaits the man who will make for
New York practicable nofseless cart. The street.
cleaning department is now attempting 10 gather
the ashes and garbage OF the city at night over
400 carts are used In the service, and the noise an
they rumble over the pavements In the dead OF
night, is exasperatfng to q nervous person. VIC.
tinS OF insomnia gradually became used 10 the
thunder or trains on the elevated railways but a
sons from the quiet rural districts. A gentleman
with waXed mustache and the courrly manners or
the typical French count stands In an office on
PaTk row, hears their complaints and assures
them that the STRENGTHENING department. which
ne represents, is endeavoring TO secure carts with
rupper tlres that Will make no noise. Every TWEEN.
ty-four hours over 2,3l2 loads OF ashes and gar.
bage are collected I'm the city, and hereafter n Is to
ne gathered at night The ash-cans will be set
In the evening, and the morning spectacle OF the
collect ors OF rags exploring ash barrels with iron
hooks VIII be no longer Witnessed The Innovation
means fortune to
THE ENTFRPRsna ITALIAN
who asserts the contents OF these ash carts on ts
dumps and illustrates the tendencies OF the times
toward monopoies When the garbage ana
ashes have been collected the carts drive 70 one Of
the seventeen docks on the water front OF ee cty
known as dumping boards. They are bridge-like
structures, extending out over the river and up-
der them lie the scowS into which the contents OF
the carts are dumped Italians, covered with dirt
swarm over the scows and trim the load so the
vessel viii ride properly. Formerly these trmmers
were paid by the city, and their services cost the
taxpayers thousands Of dollars a year An Italian
contractor agreed 10 do the work for nothing II
allowed to collect the rags and bones found in The
refuse matter He hired scores OF Italian laborer,
at $l-2o day, and made a small fortune the
nrst year. brisk competition for the privilege
Oh doing the unsayory work sprang up, but the
ished even the city authorities by agreeing 10 paw
1896 week for the privilege OF doing the trim
ming OF the Scows. He hires a great force OF men.
and every Monday morning he paws into the city
treasury 1926 Although his employees must work
night or day al low rate OF wages, the supply OF
laborers far exceeds the demand. There Is them
a fascination about the work akin 10 the excite.
ment OF digging for gold, for at every one Of the
seventeen dumping boards In the city some trim.
mer Is sure TO md coin or some article OF value
each day In the year. IL Is an unwritten but rig
idly regarded law that the trimmer owns All tie
money or plate that he finds. The trmmers ten
OF one or their number who found a BIO Oo0. nego-
liable bond In one OF the dumps. He ceased work
rich and We'll dressed, and moves ia the upper
tendon OF Italian society.
TIE ITALIAN TRrMMERs
regard with suspicion a structure OF corrugated
iron that has been built on the end OF dump at
the foot OF East Seventeenth street. IL is a cream
atory, and Its inventor claims that t will sort the
contents VI the carts well as the laborers now do
ana consume the garbage without giving Oh un-
r1es Will not, however dispose of ashes ana sIreet
sweepings. Five and half million tons OF ashes
are made every year in New York, and 27So2S
loads OF street Sweep1ngs were gathered last year
Formerly the city Was paid $1,000 a year for its
sweepings, but now they are, with the ashes ana
garbage, dumped In the sea about eighteen mileS
cut. The dumping grounds are In the direction ar
Coney Island and during the bathing season the
scows are lowed farther out than the distance re-
CURED An inspector superintends the Dumping
and sees that the scows are unloaded
only al thee times when the outgoing tide
Will take The refuse out To sea II the sea An
rough the scows ne In Gravesend Bay until &c IA
safe 10 go out. Not long ago feet OF 80 OF these
scows was anchored In the bay two days Men
employed at unloading the scows are Occasionally
lost overheard and drowned In rough weather but
the spirit " Invention has invaded their domain
also, and seif-dumping scows whose loads one
man can dump In the sea, are taking the places Of
the old boats
MONEY IN BONES.
Bones found In ash barrels are the source a
great profit to the contractor and II is SAID thae
he makes nearly enough from the sale OF them 70
pay the city It's royalty OF $326 a week. They are
cleansed and used In the big sugar refnerles OF
Brooklyn as bone black. After the rags have been
collected from the dumps they are put Ina iron
cages and submerged In the river several hours
They are then SOLD TO paper dealers and the cti-
zen reading his paper and sugaring his coree at
the breakfast table may be indebted 10 the ash
barrel for the sheet on which his paper Ii pfintao
and for the Wilderness OF his sugar.
AMOS j. CCMMlM6